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Fig. 1. Location of the study area in a) Central Europe and b) the Czech Republic. Map in c) shows regional details of the Za Hajovnou cave placement (modified after Lundberg et al., 2014; Musil, 2014). d) Map of Za Hajovnou cave (modified after Kadlec et al., 2014; Lundberg et al., 2014; Musil, 2014) (m a.s.l.: meters above sea level).
Fig. 2. Za Hajovnou cave sediments. a) Age diagram of the cave; b) sampled sedimentary Section No. 1; c) discrete samples for the paleomagnetism measurements and the rock magnetism samples (numbers show the sample name); d) the stratigraphic correlation (dashed lines) scheme of Section No. 1 with Profile 1 of Kadlec et al. (2005) and Section No. 2 (Profile 2) of Kadlec et al. (2005, 2014) (modified after Kadlec et al., 2005, 2014; Lundberg et al., 2014). Orange dashed lines show boundaries between Bed Nos. 1 and 2 in Section No. 1 and Bed Nos. 4 and 5 in Profile 1. Currently, all the sedimentary sections in the cave were excavated, except for Section No. 1.
Fig. 3. High-temperature magnetic susceptibility measurement results (χ: mass normalized magnetic susceptibility, T: temperature in Celsius).
Fig. 4. Results of acquisition (purple dots) and AF demagnetization (black dots) of IRM.
Fig. 5. Changes in magnetization directions on the Zijderveld diagram and Wulf stereonet during the AF demagnetization method and demagnetization curve for typical samples (see Supplementary Figs. S3 for all other samples). a) Normal polarity from the Brunhes section (12_0P, 13_0P); b) reversed polarity from the Matuyama section (08_0M, 21_5M).
Fig. 6. The data in a-d) show the inclination, declination, MAD values, and intensity of ChRM from this study. e-o) Comparisons of inclination, declination, and MAD values from this study with published studies in cave, marine, and other types of sediments. Cave sediments (brownish silty clay): Bella et al. (2019) (Slovakia, 0.6 cm/kyr sedimentation rate), Ge et al. (2021) (China, 0.2 cm/kyr sedimentation rate), Shaar et al. (2021) (South Africa, 0.13 cm/kyr sedimentation rate), Muttoni et al. (2017) (Bulgaria, 1 cm/kyr sedimentation rate). Marine sediments: Liu et al. (2016) (China, 9 cm/kyr sedimentation rate), Okada et al. (2017) (Japan, 61 cm/kyr sedimentation rate), Valet et al. (2014) (Indian Ocean, 5 cm/kyr sedimentation rate). Other types of sediments: Giaccio et al. (2013) (Italy, lacustrine sediments, 26 cm/kyr sedimentation rate), Sagnotti et al. (2014) (Italy, lacustrine sediments, 20 cm/kyr sedimentation rate), Jin and Liu (2011) (China, loess sediments, 100 cm/kyr sedimentation rate). The depth of the cited datasets was normalized considering the transition zone and differences in sedimentation rate for each study. Note: declination data from Giaccio et al. (2013) and Liu et al. (2016), declination and inclination data from Muttoni et al. (2017), and MAD values from Bella et al. (2019) and Shaar et al. (2021) are not available.
Fig. 7. VGP latitudes of a) this study and b) Haneda et al. (2020) (Japan, marine sediments, 89 cm/kyr sedimentation rate). c) the precursor model of Valet et al. (2012).
Fig. 8. VGP path of a) this study and b) VGP path of transition section from Okada et al. (2017) (Japan, marine sediments, 61 cm/kyr sedimentation rate). Dashed lines show the migration of the paleopole from east of Africa to the area west of North America for both studies.
Table 1. Sedimentation rate and transition duration estimation for Za Hajovnou from published studies in European cave sediments.